The Team | Leather Apron Club

Meet our Founders

It has been a great journey watching the birth and continuous improvement of PCs and CNCs from 1974 until the present. I would not pick a different time in history to have been born even if I were given the chance. I have been able to enjoy the challenges of a great industry. I have taken the calculated risk time and again. I love to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I have never cowered before any master nor bent to any threat.

Read About My 45-year Journey

My Italian grandparents came to America through Ellis Island in 1908 and 1911, my grandfather came first with his friend from Sicily. He started a business and prepared for his family to arrive and be given a chance at the American dream. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid, to think and act for myself. It has been a privilege to enjoy the benefits of my creations. At just over 59-years-old I can stand in front of the world and say “this, with God’s help, I have done.” I have lived as a true American and have been blessed to have a part of the American dream.

Sarah Perry

I met Sarah when she was the deli manager of a local chain grocery store. We fell in love because we both were going through similar stages in our lives. In 2013, before we were married, Sarah helped me start Leather Apron Club. We started out both owning equal shares in the corporation, so we both had the drive to make sure it succeeded. Our mission was twofold; we wanted to re-invigorate manufacturing in America, and we wanted to have a positive impact in our community and teach life skills to the local children

Together, we struggled to buy a house with acreage, and get it paid off in time to retire debt free. Until President Trump took office, it appeared our struggle would last until I was 67 years old. However, when our president brought manufacturing back to the US, our part time business income began to outpace my full-time income from being Senior Programmer / Machinist at Honda Aircraft Company's Research and Development Division which manufactures the new HondaJet.

Due to a career ending injury to my right arm, I was forced to go on disability a week after I realized I made enough money to retire at 59 ½, seven and a half years before we previously planned. Sarah stuck beside me and gave me the inspiration to continue with our mission. Since then we have been extremely blessed with every new soul we try to help. Even though I lost the use of my right arm, Sarah and many new friends have helped me keep the LAC mission alive.

Although it was decades of experience that we sold to make things happen, it was only Sarah’s support that gave me the strength to continue. Without Sarah, Leather Apron Club could not exist.